ChASM 2016

Computational Approaches to Social Modeling

Call for Papers

Workshop:

Modern life is infused with a myriad of gadgets and new technologies that are quickly becoming online extensions of our offline lives. How we interact with others, where we are and where we go are all facets that are increasingly captured with ever greater detail by our online tools and gadgets. Digital traces constantly produced by these tools create hitherto unseen possibilities for the study of human behavior, but also pose their own challenges. The avalanche of data we are witnessing demands new tools and concepts to be analyzed and the new problems that are within our reach demand new algorithms and models to be developed.

This workshop aims to bring together practitioners of both computer science and social science so that both may better understand the challenges faced by each other and how best they may collaborate to overcome them.

combining reactive and non-reactive, obtrusive and unobtrusive research methods for exploring social phenomena

for collecting and storing social datasets to make research results reproducible and verifiable

for analyzing biased, selective and incomplete social data on the Web

for preserving individuals' privacy while studying social phenomena​

Algorithms, Tools and Applications

Analysis of social data

that allow to capture social data

that exploit social science findings and theories (e.g., tools that detect and prevent mobbing or depressive behavior online)

Submissions:

Due to differing publishing practices of social scientists, physicists and computer scientists, submissions can take 3 forms:

Extended 2 page abstracts of previously published manuscripts

Short papers: should not exceed 8 pages

Full papers: should not exceed 14 pages

All page counts exclude references and any appendix.

Paper submissions must be written in English and should be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines. The review process will be single-blind (i.e., submissions do not need to be anonymized). All papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission page.